Technically I highly doubt that there is an equal amount of energy in going from 40 to 80 and going from 40 to a stop (*accelerating* from 0 to 40 vs 40 to 80 will definitely involve different gears). And I wasn't talking about doubling my speed...15 or 20 may be enough to get past them, vs. coming to a complete stop in a limited distance to avoid either party being t-boned or a corner impact.
And we're not even talking about if there are drivers behind you. The commuting traffic I drive in, I would bet money that if I were to randomly stand on my brakes, I would get nailed almost instantly.
Just to remind you, my original point was that "100.000% compliance with the speed limit no matter what in all circumstances" was a bit unreasonable. Our definitions of technically correct are butting heads:)
I assume what you mean is "it has a better blacklist." Because that's what we're talking about, right? Not heuristics to determine whether something's an ad? If so, then no, it does NOT "block all ads."
and it operates in kernelmode).
Okay, fine. Apart from any potential security concerns, it'll be faster.
There also isn't a host file on the planet that tears up that much CPU and in excess of 4gb of RAM and there probably never will be.
I keep hearing these "OMG Firefox is eating up all my available memory" responses and I just don't buy it. I'm a tab whore, and I only have 2GB of RAM even in my machine and neither AdBlock nor Firefox (well, technically I'm on Palemoon now) chokes.
Especially since adblock doesn't do a fraction of what hosts can for added speed, security, reliability, and even anonymity.
Why you insist on using a needlessly redundant and massively inferior product that doesn't even do its job right anymore being crippled and paid off by advertisers to NOT do its job
...Aaaaaand we're back to the APK rhetoric. At least this post was almost entirely free of bizarro punctuation, bolding, italics, etc. You missed a + and &.
As a final thought, all this whining about "AdBlock doesn't even do it's job anymore! It's sold out!" can be solved by merely going into preferences and unchecking the "Allow some non-intrustive advertising" box. At least, I have no reason to suspect it doesn't.
I'm talking from an end user perspective. Maybe it's not as efficient with clock cycles but who cares because it's good enough. I'm sure there's a few fiddly technical reasons for HOSTS but AdBlock + NoScript does everything *I* care about.
No, I haven't done benchmarks. And I'm not going to commission an interface usability team to compare them either, because as we've learned on/. they're generally idiots (the ones we hear about, anyway). AdBlock is virtually the definition of a set-and-forget, zero-effort-required product. NoScript isn't so much, but I really doubt ApkTool9000 is any better.
I can't help but notice the conspicuous absence of NoScript on his list of poo-poo'd extensions. Not like it's one of the top 2 names in Firefox security plugins or anything...
Not quite sure how that's a challenge...it's an infodump of declarative statements saying his program is good.
And as stated previously, I have no desire to compare penis sizes. Presumably he/you'd reject any arguments I made anyway. Posting the same thing 12 times an article for years is a fairly good indication he's not open to having his mind changed:)
AdBlock works well, and you don't have to manually tinker with much of anything. Throw in Element Hiding Helper for click-based blocking for the edge cases. If you *enjoy* messing with fiddly bits, good on you--I can understand that as I rather enjoy setting up a new Linux install myself. But at a certain point I just become tired of all the fiddly bits and want something to Just Work(tm).
P.S: I'm sure you'll ignore all these points and just keep ranting about HOSTS so good day, sir.
Assuming the ABS doesn't kick in or your brakes lock when you suddenly stand on it. I would not trust it to stop me anywhere on the closer half of the intersection.
Bodies in motion tend to want to stay in motion. If there's equal chances of evading by speeding up or coming to a complete stop, speeding up takes significantly less energy.
Still no answer from him in regard to my challenge put to him to this very day MONTHS later (that tell you anything?
You and Hairyfeet should get together. Not responding to your testosterone chest-beating just means he doesn't like fighting trolls. Although him contacting you in the first place, if true, would be a black mark on him.
And could you elaborate what you mean by "AdBlock is 'souled-out' to Google" please?
Some of us can acquire information without blinky lights, webcasts, and Internet nerds with grating voices spending 10 minutes stumbling through a 3-command sequence.
Not to mention a page of text is orders of magnitude faster to load and smaller in filesize.
Most of the time, yeah. Occasionally you'll run into a site that puts ads in a plain unnamed <li> or something such that there's "nothing to block" that won't destroy the page.
I can't believe this adblock is so popular with all the problems people bring up.
What problems? With AdBlock? It's set-and-forget.
With NoScript? After the first time you go to a page and whitelist a couple domains you don't probably have to worry about that either, until they change how their site serves things. Admittedly it can be a bit of a hunt-and-click-fest the first time you go to a site with a million crossscripted domains, but that's the price you pay.
Is manually editing a text file supposed to be easier? I haven't shelled out the cash for ApkHostsFileOrgasmicEditor9000.
Yeah, I wasn't proposing adding parentheses per se, just using them to make the alternate readings more apparent. I think I would just break it up into two sentences.
The company is proposing the money for programs similar to those to spay and neuter domestic cats. According to a government study, domestic cats kill over 1.4 billion birds a year.
The company is proposing the money for programs (such as those to spay and neuter domestic cats), which a government study found kill over 1.4 billion birds a year.
vs.
The company is proposing the money for programs such as those to spay and neuter (domestic cats, which a government study found kill over 1.4 billion birds a year).
I thought the general rule when working with prepositional phrases is to discard all of them to figure out what the antecedent of the aside* is: "such as those (to spay and neuter domestic cats)" is nested prepositional phrases.
* I feel like there's a more specific grammatical term than "aside" but can't think of it or find it on Google at the moment.
Or is there some actual causal connection that I can't see? I thought neutering animals was supposed to make them *less* aggressive, which would I assume mean fewer birds get killed by them.
It depends what the speed limit is. I'd say slam on the brakes if you're going 30 but accelerate through if you're going 40. But of course it all depends on how close the other driver is and how fast he's traveling, how much warning you have...
My point was that there are going to be times where speeding up will work better. Saying "100.00% compliance with the speed limit" is never going to cover all cases.
Or how about if you're already going the speed limit on a four-lane road in the second-left lane, a guy is coming up on your left, and some bozo starts wandering into your lane from the right. There is also someone right behind you. (This actually happened to me.) Your only options are to violate the speed limit, or let the guy hit you. Me, I tried to split the difference between the two cars and ended up hitting the guy on my left instead.
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The only reasonable choice is selling them back to the rest of the UK, I guess? If that's not what he meant I have no idea.
Do you mean "The Englishwoman Shirts"? Rather changes the meaning.
But if they moved the nukes to London, the aliens would get them when they invade next Christmas.
Oh wait...or are we not doing it on a regular schedule anymore since Tennant left?
Technically I highly doubt that there is an equal amount of energy in going from 40 to 80 and going from 40 to a stop (*accelerating* from 0 to 40 vs 40 to 80 will definitely involve different gears). And I wasn't talking about doubling my speed...15 or 20 may be enough to get past them, vs. coming to a complete stop in a limited distance to avoid either party being t-boned or a corner impact.
And we're not even talking about if there are drivers behind you. The commuting traffic I drive in, I would bet money that if I were to randomly stand on my brakes, I would get nailed almost instantly.
Just to remind you, my original point was that "100.000% compliance with the speed limit no matter what in all circumstances" was a bit unreasonable. Our definitions of technically correct are butting heads :)
Well, mostly because I was at lunch, but hey :)
I haven't been arguing this whole time that Hosts is less featureful than AdBlock, just harder to use.
Now look who "can't prove wrong" all his points :)
and it blocks all ads unlike adblock,
I assume what you mean is "it has a better blacklist." Because that's what we're talking about, right? Not heuristics to determine whether something's an ad? If so, then no, it does NOT "block all ads."
and it operates in kernelmode).
Okay, fine. Apart from any potential security concerns, it'll be faster.
There also isn't a host file on the planet that tears up that much CPU and in excess of 4gb of RAM and there probably never will be.
I keep hearing these "OMG Firefox is eating up all my available memory" responses and I just don't buy it. I'm a tab whore, and I only have 2GB of RAM even in my machine and neither AdBlock nor Firefox (well, technically I'm on Palemoon now) chokes.
Especially since adblock doesn't do a fraction of what hosts can for added speed, security, reliability, and even anonymity.
Why you insist on using a needlessly redundant and massively inferior product that doesn't even do its job right anymore being crippled and paid off by advertisers to NOT do its job
...Aaaaaand we're back to the APK rhetoric. At least this post was almost entirely free of bizarro punctuation, bolding, italics, etc. You missed a + and &.
As a final thought, all this whining about "AdBlock doesn't even do it's job anymore! It's sold out!" can be solved by merely going into preferences and unchecking the "Allow some non-intrustive advertising" box. At least, I have no reason to suspect it doesn't.
It's called a joke, dude.
I'm talking from an end user perspective. Maybe it's not as efficient with clock cycles but who cares because it's good enough. I'm sure there's a few fiddly technical reasons for HOSTS but AdBlock + NoScript does everything *I* care about.
No, I haven't done benchmarks. And I'm not going to commission an interface usability team to compare them either, because as we've learned on /. they're generally idiots (the ones we hear about, anyway). AdBlock is virtually the definition of a set-and-forget, zero-effort-required product. NoScript isn't so much, but I really doubt ApkTool9000 is any better.
I can't help but notice the conspicuous absence of NoScript on his list of poo-poo'd extensions. Not like it's one of the top 2 names in Firefox security plugins or anything...
Not quite sure how that's a challenge...it's an infodump of declarative statements saying his program is good.
And as stated previously, I have no desire to compare penis sizes. Presumably he/you'd reject any arguments I made anyway. Posting the same thing 12 times an article for years is a fairly good indication he's not open to having his mind changed :)
AdBlock works well, and you don't have to manually tinker with much of anything. Throw in Element Hiding Helper for click-based blocking for the edge cases. If you *enjoy* messing with fiddly bits, good on you--I can understand that as I rather enjoy setting up a new Linux install myself. But at a certain point I just become tired of all the fiddly bits and want something to Just Work(tm).
P.S: I'm sure you'll ignore all these points and just keep ranting about HOSTS so good day, sir.
God, you can stop posting the same stuff 12 times per article, dude. I got the information.
And I can also do without the chest-beating and calling me feeble. Grow up.
Assuming the ABS doesn't kick in or your brakes lock when you suddenly stand on it. I would not trust it to stop me anywhere on the closer half of the intersection.
Bodies in motion tend to want to stay in motion. If there's equal chances of evading by speeding up or coming to a complete stop, speeding up takes significantly less energy.
Still no answer from him in regard to my challenge put to him to this very day MONTHS later (that tell you anything?
You and Hairyfeet should get together. Not responding to your testosterone chest-beating just means he doesn't like fighting trolls. Although him contacting you in the first place, if true, would be a black mark on him.
And could you elaborate what you mean by "AdBlock is 'souled-out' to Google" please?
1) it was conducted by a company that is in the business of providing internet ads
After reading Slashdot for a few years now, my first reaction to any study is looking for who funded it so I can figure out how it's a blatant lie.
There are far too few false positives.
Some of us can acquire information without blinky lights, webcasts, and Internet nerds with grating voices spending 10 minutes stumbling through a 3-command sequence.
Not to mention a page of text is orders of magnitude faster to load and smaller in filesize.
Most of the time, yeah. Occasionally you'll run into a site that puts ads in a plain unnamed <li> or something such that there's "nothing to block" that won't destroy the page.
on many sites you'll be met with messages such as:
Sounds to me like you just have a poor taste in websites.
Fuck 'em.
Shh, you'll summon APK, you fool!
I can't believe this adblock is so popular with all the problems people bring up.
What problems? With AdBlock? It's set-and-forget.
With NoScript? After the first time you go to a page and whitelist a couple domains you don't probably have to worry about that either, until they change how their site serves things. Admittedly it can be a bit of a hunt-and-click-fest the first time you go to a site with a million crossscripted domains, but that's the price you pay.
Is manually editing a text file supposed to be easier? I haven't shelled out the cash for ApkHostsFileOrgasmicEditor9000.
Yeah, I wasn't proposing adding parentheses per se, just using them to make the alternate readings more apparent. I think I would just break it up into two sentences.
The company is proposing the money for programs similar to those to spay and neuter domestic cats. According to a government study, domestic cats kill over 1.4 billion birds a year.
Yeah, by the phrasing of the quote I thought it was saying the opposite.
The company is proposing the money for programs (such as those to spay and neuter domestic cats), which a government study found kill over 1.4 billion birds a year.
vs.
The company is proposing the money for programs such as those to spay and neuter (domestic cats, which a government study found kill over 1.4 billion birds a year).
I thought the general rule when working with prepositional phrases is to discard all of them to figure out what the antecedent of the aside* is: "such as those (to spay and neuter domestic cats)" is nested prepositional phrases.
* I feel like there's a more specific grammatical term than "aside" but can't think of it or find it on Google at the moment.
Or is there some actual causal connection that I can't see? I thought neutering animals was supposed to make them *less* aggressive, which would I assume mean fewer birds get killed by them.
The government study found that funding spaying and neutering dogs and cats kills 1.4 billion birds a year? Now *that's* an article I want to read!
It depends what the speed limit is. I'd say slam on the brakes if you're going 30 but accelerate through if you're going 40. But of course it all depends on how close the other driver is and how fast he's traveling, how much warning you have...
My point was that there are going to be times where speeding up will work better. Saying "100.00% compliance with the speed limit" is never going to cover all cases.
Or how about if you're already going the speed limit on a four-lane road in the second-left lane, a guy is coming up on your left, and some bozo starts wandering into your lane from the right. There is also someone right behind you. (This actually happened to me.) Your only options are to violate the speed limit, or let the guy hit you. Me, I tried to split the difference between the two cars and ended up hitting the guy on my left instead.